The Detective Branch of police yesterday arrested a 14-year-old with 76,000 yaba tablets from an office of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd at Wari in the capital.
Tipped off, Officer in-Charge of Wari police station Tapan Chandra Shaha conducted a drive in the BTCL office housed on the ground floor of Wari sub-post office around 8:30am and arrested the teenager.
The BTCL office was used as distribution centre for yaba business by Md Mostofa, 41, who fled from the spot sensing presence of the law enforcers.
Later, the law enforcers seized 76,000 yaba tablets from his possession.
Joint Commissioner of DB Monirul Islam at a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre said the teenager was a street child. Md Mostafa involved him in carrying the tablets with the offer of Tk500 a day.
Monirul said the teenager had delivered yaba tablets to different parts of the city before.
Police obtained a lot of information from him and is now looking for BTCL employee Md Mostofa and some other staff and officials for their alleged involvement in the drug business.
Quoting the arrestee, Joint Commissioner Monirul informed the media that during preliminary interrogation the teenager reportedly said he regularly brought yaba consignment into the capital from Cox’s Bazar and a gang of drug dealers used the BTCL office as their base of operations.
However, the teenager claimed that he did not know what he carried in the bags, said the DB boss.
Recently, different law enforcement agencies in drives across the country seized hundreds of thousands of sex-stimulating yaba tablets and arrested a number of drug dealers, carriers and sellers.
The people found involved in this illegal business also include police officers, lawyers and political leaders.
